Word: controlled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When scientists are feeling a heavy sense of their social responsibility, they prefer to dust their hands of the atom bomb: its threatened misuse they regard as a purely political matter and out of their control. But science willingly accepts responsibility for another "chain reaction": the frightening, snowballing increase of the human population has been brought about by science's contribution to human health and fertility...
Ultimate Choice. None of the speakers believes that mankind's future can be assured by merely lecturing farmers on how to be kind to topsoil. Warren S. Thompson, of the Scripps Foundation for Research in Population Problems, argues that the human race must eventually control its own numbers, or be controlled-by hunger, war and pestilence...
...population of Occidental lands has undergone a growth in numbers and a change in distribution which ... is unprecedented. These revolutionary changes . . . are for the most part by-products ... of scientific knowledge . . . Because they are by-products they have received little attention, and almost no effort has been made to control or guide them in the interest of the group...
...Birth Control. One of the complaints of buyers was that too many trashy books were being brought out. S. & S. agreed. But at a time when five out of every six books were money-losers, few publishers dared take a chance on new authors. Cracked one publisher: "I've always believed in birth control for books. When I have weakened, I've regretted...
Died. William Nissley McNair, 68, fiddle-playing onetime mayor of Pittsburgh (1933-36), whose unstatesmanlike didos made a circus of municipal affairs; of a heart attack; in St. Louis. McNair once dismissed all violators of the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Act ("They had committed no crime," he said, "except competing in the rotten liquor business with Governor Pinchot"), failed in a Cromwellian move to dissolve a newly elected city council, resigned in a huff when the council balked at confirming his appointees...